Top 53 Quotes About Self Affirmation
#1. The understanding is universal, pantheistic, the love of the universe; but the grand characteristic of religion, and of the Christian religion especially, is that it is thoroughly anthropotheistic, the exclusive love of man for himself, the exclusive self-affirmation of the human nature.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#2. The neurotic is aware of the danger of a situation in which his unrealistic self-affirmation is broken down and no realistic self-affirmation takes its place.
Paul Tillich
#3. Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self.
Paul Tillich
#4. Self-affirmation cannot be found in love; it is a prior condition of genuine love.
Jo Coudert
#5. Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab self-affirmation.
Lev Gumilev
#6. In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
Gao Xingjian
#7. What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting, unpredictable, dangerous world of relation into the having of things.
Martin Buber
#8. It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.
Cornel West
#9. Absolute faith is not the place of self-affirmation, but the place of self-negation. Life of faith is not limited to our spiritual life. What is important is how our spiritual sensitivity is applied to our relative environment.
Sun Myung Moon
#10. The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe .
Paul Tillich
#11. Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
Aimee Mullins
#12. We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#13. Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation.
Paul Tillich
#14. A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.
Oleg Romanishin
#15. It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.
Miranda Otto
#16. I'm proud of myself for doing my best. That's all anyone can ask of me.
Stefanie Weisman
#17. There's a widespread belief that if you have solid self-esteem you don't need outside affirmation and praise. This is patently untrue, by the way.
Harriet Lerner
#18. Each day I connect with my inner being. Doing so, makes navigating through life so much easier.
Renae A. Sauter
#19. One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right.
Annie Bryant
#20. A Course In Miracles is a constant affirmation that you are created by an unconditional thought of love that appears to have lost itself in a world of fear. Freedom, joy and peace of mind are yours again, when you remember and re-connect to your unconditional self.
Robert Holden
#21. Today I make time to release any burdens that I carry. One by one I release them into the atmosphere, until my body is in a complete state of calm
Renae A. Sauter
#22. At anytime you can decide to live a life that says " I love myself
Renae A. Sauter
#23. It's so free to know that I do not have to compensate or make excuses for being treated poorly in relationships. I can simply move forward knowing I deserve better
Renae A. Sauter
#24. Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We must have strong self-confidence combined with deep humility.
Henri Nouwen
#25. To ensure health in mind, body and spirit; increase giving and receiving love.
Renae A. Sauter
#26. For younger kids, repetition is really valuable. They demand it. When they see a show over and over again, they not only are understanding it better, which is a form of power, but just by predicting what is going to happen, I think they feel a real sense of affirmation and self-worth.
Malcolm Gladwell
#27. I am open to receiving help with moving forward toward my dreams and aspirations.
Renae A. Sauter
#28. It was come as you are when visiting my blog, CiCI's Garden -otherwise what would be the point? Readers were welcomed to a virtual place where emotions were respected and affirmed, and encouragement was offered to those who longed to know that wounded hearts can heal - even if it takes a lifetime.
EsthersChild
#29. The artist is always a servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as if by miracle. Modern man, however, does not want to make any sacrifice, even though true affirmation of self can only be expressed in sacrifice.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#31. In moments when I am fully connected to my heart; I really do love everyone
Renae A. Sauter
#32. I show up for my fellow man by sharing my inner wealth. I generously give out compassion and acceptance wherever I go.
Renae A. Sauter
#34. Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which affirms the value and the holiness of life, the artist must die. To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self.
Madeleine L'Engle
#35. I always have the time, the room and the energy for more love.
Renae A. Sauter
#36. It's wonderful to know that the power to define who I am rests solely with me. If I decide I am an artist, or a poet, a teacher or a writer then I AM.
Renae A. Sauter
#37. We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.
Alain De Botton
#38. There is a power within and without. If you ask, it answers. It's just a matter of being calm and wise and listening. It takes years.
John Altman
#40. Negative self-talk and negative affirmation can keep you anchored in old thought patterns and identities.
Bryant McGill
#41. When I am centered on love I don't need to be better than you. I don't need to be rich. I don't even need to be extraordinary. When I am centered on love, who I am and where I am at is enough.
Renae A. Sauter
#42. It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.
Bernhard Haring
#44. Thank you to all the people who have triggered my issues. You have helped me clarify what they are, start the healing process and ultimately become a better person.
Renae A. Sauter
#45. Easter is a marvelous affirmation of the genius of our design, but it is likewise the blunt acknowledgement that left to its own devices, the genius of our design will result in the destruction of our lives.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#47. He had begun the diary less as a record of his life (for whom and why? What life?) than as a regular and self-indulgent exploration, a means of makings sense of the past years, part catharsis, part comforting affirmation.
P.D. James
#48. No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
Marilyn Monroe
#50. The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
Ellen Key
#52. WHAT A TIRING WAY TO LIVE, WHEN YOUR SELF-WORTH IS CONSTANTLY RELYING ON THE AFFIRMATION AND APPROVAL OF OTHERS.
Darlene Zschech
